Muffin tin

“ Add a tablespoonful more of flour if not as stiff as ordinary cake batter. Pour in well-greased bread tin and bake about 40 minutes in a hot oven.
AUNT SARAH'S DELICIOUS CREAM BISCUITS
Place in a flour sifter 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1⁄2 teaspoonful of salt and 1⁄2 teaspoonful of sugar. Sift twice; stir together 1⁄2 cup of sweet milk and 1⁄2 cup of thick, sweet cream. Quickly mix all together, cutting through flour with a knife, until a soft dough is formed, mixing and handling as little as possible. Drop spoonfuls into warmed muffin tins and bake at once in a hot oven. ”

“ Mix muffin method. Makes a stiff dough. Shape in a long roll about 3⁄4 inch in diameter. Cut off sections and roll, making tiny marbles. Roll each in sugar and bake in moderate oven.
Good for Christmas time.
Date Dillies
Bake in a very slow oven in muffin tins. Fill pans compactly one-half full. Pyrex custard cups bake these nicely. These may be wrapped and tied to imitate plum puddings for Xmas gifts.
Date Bars
Beat yolks and add sugar. Beat whites and add alternately with dry ingredients. Add fruit and bake in a shallow pan in moderate oven about 30 minutes. ”

“ Four cupfuls of flour, three eggs, one teaspoonful of butter, one cake of compressed yeast, and two cupfuls of milk. Beat the yolks of the eggs until very light. Stir in the butter, flour, and milk, the yeast being dissolved in the milk. Beat the whites to a stiff froth and add last. Set to rise, and when light bake in well-buttered muffin-tins. ”

“ Strain through double cheesecloth, add tapioca drained from water and rinsed. Reheat and serve in bouillon cups. A bit of
Red coloring may be added to intensify the color.
CREAM MUFFINS Sift together
2 cups pastry flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 teaspoons sugar and
1⁄2 teaspoon salt.
With fingers rub in
1⁄4 cup butter or margarine, add
2 eggs well beaten and
7/8 cup thin cream.
Mix thoroughly, pour into greased muffin pans or small fancy shaped tins and bake 12 minutes at 400 degrees F., and 5 minutes at 450 degrees F. Makes 16 small muffins. ”

“ Beat four eggs very light; and when the milk is cold, stir them into it, alternately with the meal, a little at a time, of each. Add the salt. Beat the whole very hard after it is all mixed. Then butter some muffin-rings on the inside. Set them in a hot oven, or on a heated griddle; pour some of the batter into each; and bake the muffins well. Send them hot to table, continuing to bake while a fresh supply is wanted. Pull them open with your fingers, and eat them with butter, to which you may add molasses or honey. ”

“ Make in small round balls and bake in muffin pans.
Bake 2 round balls in each muffin pan, brushing between with melted butter.
Bake 3 round balls in each muffin pan.
Roll 1⁄4 inch thick, spread with butter, roll up like a jelly roll, cut in pieces 1 inch thick, and bake in muffin pans.
Prepare as above, sprinkling with sugar and cinnamon before rolling.
Prepare as above, sprinkling with chopped nuts and maple sugar before rolling.
Roll 1⁄4 inch thick, spread with butter, fold in 3 layers, cut off strips 1 inch wide, twist and coil. When baked spread with confectioners' frosting. ”

“ Drop into each of 12 greased medium muffin cups 1⁄2 tbsp. butter, 1⁄2 tbsp. brown sugar, 2 or 3 pecan halves. Fold 1 cup cut-up dates into Muffin batter (p. 2) . Spoon into prepared muffin cups. Bake.
BACON-CHEESE MUFFINS
Make Muffin batter (p. 2) —except fold in 2 tbsp. crisp, cooked diced bacon and 1⁄2 cup grated, sharp, yellow cheese. Bake.
PRUNE, APRICOT, OR PINEAPPLE COFFEE CAKE
Make Coffee Cake batter (p. 2) —except sprinkle 2 tbsp. melted butter and 1⁄4 cup white or brown sugar over batter (for prune topping, use 3⁄4 tsp. cinnamon) . ”

“ The incident set me upon considering the nature of the muffin, and opened to me a large field of speculation, culinary and historical. I first perceived that there were combined in the greasy accompaniment of our tea-tables characters so diverse, that it must have a history, and an eventful one; that it must have undergone vicissitude and persecution in the course of its wide career, the range of which in space and time could not be doubtful, from the place in which I found it. ”

“ Muff, muf, n. a stupid fellow.—v.t. and v.i. to perform awkwardly, spoil: to act clumsily, esp. in letting a ball slip out of the hands. [Prob. related to Dut. muffen, to dote; Ger. muffen, to sulk.]
Muffin, muf′in, n. a soft, light, spongy cake, eaten hot with butter: a small plate: one who dangles after a young woman: a poor ball-player.—ns. Muff′in-cap, a round flat cap for men; Muffineer′, a dish for keeping muffins hot: a metal cruet for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
Muffle, muf′l, n. the thick naked upper lip and nose, as of a ruminant. ”

“ Follow the directions for Plain Muffins as given above, adding 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 of a cup of cold cooked rice or oatmeal to the batter before pouring it into the muffin-pans.
BLUEBERRY MUFFINS
DIRECTIONS
"Cream" the butter in a mixing-bowl. Add the sugar, and "cream" again. Beat the egg in a small bowl, and stir one-half of it only (about 2 tablespoons) into the butter and sugar. ”

“ Welles went to look at her [265] muffins. They were hardly light, but the crumpets were so nearly ready that she put on the griddle.
“You happen to have a soap-stone griddle! that is the very thing needed for muffins, though one can manage to bake on an iron one.”
“Yes, I am promising myself inodorous buckwheat cakes this winter with that.”
It took the griddle half an hour to get thoroughly hot.
“Of course you have no crumpet-rings?”
“No; but if these are a success I shall get a few made; meanwhile, won’t muffin rings do? They are the large, old-fashioned sort.” ”

“ Have ready a frying-pan two-thirds full of boiling salted water, allowing one-half tablespoon salt to one quart of water. Put two or three buttered muffin rings in the water. Break each egg separately into a saucer, and carefully slip into a muffin ring. The water should cover the eggs. When there is a film over the top, and the white is firm, carefully remove with a buttered skimmer to circular pieces of buttered toast, and let each person season his own egg with butter, salt, and pepper. ”

“ These muffins are invaluable to children in health, and to the victim of indigestion or constipation, whether child or adult. One muffin with each meal will solve the problem of constipation in growing children without the use of drugs or other aid. They will regulate the bowels of adults in many instances without resorting to drugs.
Raw fruit in season, or stewed fruit, or a baked apple, with a light boiled egg and one bran muffin, is an ample and a nourishing breakfast for a child at school. ”